Amanda 🖤🤍💜
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Amanda 🖤🤍💜
@tomekeeper.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Previously amandaarue in other spaces, trying something new here 💜
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Very excited to support librarypunk, which is not only an informative, thoughtful podcast, but a thriving community of leftist library workers doing the important work of shitposting for our collective sanity.
We're doing a fundraising drive for one more year of librarypunk. Hosting and recording costs money, and we'd really appreciate your support to keep the show going. Everything we make will continue to be free for all, but we wanted to offer ways for people to show their support.
Fundraising for one more year of librarypunk
librarypunk published a post on Ko-fi
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February 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Very excited to support librarypunk, which is not only an informative, thoughtful podcast, but a thriving community of leftist library workers doing the important work of shitposting for our collective sanity.
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Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with.
www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...
www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...
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January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Telling folks to just "plug in to community" rn is well-meaning and if you can do that, wonderful. But most people are not super connected to community for many reasons. So, if you don't have community rn that's ok, consider finding 2-5 ppl you can form a pod with.
www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...
www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res...
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Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI
January 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI
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Today I get to make an exciting announcement! After years of work, San Francisco Public Library's alternative headings are now live. This list represents hundreds of hours of work and I'm proud of what we've done. Here is the list if your library would like to use it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
SFPL_SubjectHeadings
docs.google.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I get to make an exciting announcement! After years of work, San Francisco Public Library's alternative headings are now live. This list represents hundreds of hours of work and I'm proud of what we've done. Here is the list if your library would like to use it: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Book banning is real and is terrorizing teachers, librarians & students from marginalized identities now. It is worse than it has ever been. If you’re remembering your quaint “Celebrate Freedom. Read a Banned Book” T-shirt, adjust your perspective. You’ve brought an umbrella to a hurricane.
January 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Book banning is real and is terrorizing teachers, librarians & students from marginalized identities now. It is worse than it has ever been. If you’re remembering your quaint “Celebrate Freedom. Read a Banned Book” T-shirt, adjust your perspective. You’ve brought an umbrella to a hurricane.
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Here's my weekly list of must-read articles, some resources for justice-minded folks, and some thoughts on how we can sustain ourselves and each other in these times.
Must-Reads, Resources, and Some Thoughts Sustaining Ourselves
Let’s develop the practices and build the infrastructure we need to stay in the fight.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Here's my weekly list of must-read articles, some resources for justice-minded folks, and some thoughts on how we can sustain ourselves and each other in these times.
I've been thinking about physical media a lot lately. I've spent time collecting DVDs and CDs of some of my favorites over the past year and I feel like it has increased my enjoyment and appreciation for the things that I am consuming.
January 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I've been thinking about physical media a lot lately. I've spent time collecting DVDs and CDs of some of my favorites over the past year and I feel like it has increased my enjoyment and appreciation for the things that I am consuming.
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These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.
One thing before tomorrow:
Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
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Use your local libraries.
Get your card.
Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.
Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).
Attend promoted activities.
Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.
Tell your kids that libraries are good.
They are.
📚
January 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.
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the tiktok ban is like 5% of what happens if KOSA becomes law but we’re not having that conversation
January 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
the tiktok ban is like 5% of what happens if KOSA becomes law but we’re not having that conversation
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In my opinion #schools actively destroy the love of reading by
Removing choice
Using a program like Accelerated Reader
Not hiring a #librarian
Having a lack of reading role models through the whole school
Making reading a form of punishment
Removing choice
Using a program like Accelerated Reader
Not hiring a #librarian
Having a lack of reading role models through the whole school
Making reading a form of punishment
December 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM
In my opinion #schools actively destroy the love of reading by
Removing choice
Using a program like Accelerated Reader
Not hiring a #librarian
Having a lack of reading role models through the whole school
Making reading a form of punishment
Removing choice
Using a program like Accelerated Reader
Not hiring a #librarian
Having a lack of reading role models through the whole school
Making reading a form of punishment
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📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
November 18, 2024 at 4:04 PM
📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines
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I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
January 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place.
A thread.
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@ulunyc.bsky.social is hosting two emergency peer support meetings for folks in California impacted/working in communities affected by the wildfires.
Please pass along and share!
#Libraries
#CalifoniaWildFires
#LibraryTrauma
#Library
#LibraryWorkers
#Librarians
lnkd.in/gQ2btVFC
Please pass along and share!
#Libraries
#CalifoniaWildFires
#LibraryTrauma
#Library
#LibraryWorkers
#Librarians
lnkd.in/gQ2btVFC
January 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
@ulunyc.bsky.social is hosting two emergency peer support meetings for folks in California impacted/working in communities affected by the wildfires.
Please pass along and share!
#Libraries
#CalifoniaWildFires
#LibraryTrauma
#Library
#LibraryWorkers
#Librarians
lnkd.in/gQ2btVFC
Please pass along and share!
#Libraries
#CalifoniaWildFires
#LibraryTrauma
#Library
#LibraryWorkers
#Librarians
lnkd.in/gQ2btVFC
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At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:
January 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:
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Read Palestine Week Library Guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...
from the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine email list
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from the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine email list
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Read Palestine Week Library Guide
Read Palestine Week Library Guide The second annual Read Palestine Week will take place from November 29-December 5. The week always begins on November 29, which is the International Day of Solidarity...
docs.google.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Read Palestine Week Library Guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...
from the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine email list
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from the Librarians and Archivists with Palestine email list
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the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult
November 25, 2024 at 12:46 AM
the “Elonia Musk” thing rests entirely on “ha ha what if he was a woman” and that is so self-evidently transphobic and misogynistic that I do not understand calling yourself progressive and unironically using it as an insult
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Looks like we avoided a vote on the nonprofit shutdown bill today but are likely to see one tomorrow.
Your rep's office in DC is gonna be closed for the night, great time to leave a voicemail, especially if they were one of the Democratic yes votes last week (listed upthread)
Your rep's office in DC is gonna be closed for the night, great time to leave a voicemail, especially if they were one of the Democratic yes votes last week (listed upthread)
OK, well as luck would have it they decided NOT to proceed with debate and vote on #HR9495 today.
5:09:49 PM
SPECIAL ORDER SPEECHES - The House has concluded all anticipated legislative business and has proceeded to Special Order speeches.
5:09:49 PM
SPECIAL ORDER SPEECHES - The House has concluded all anticipated legislative business and has proceeded to Special Order speeches.
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NOV 19 at 2:26pm Eastern
The House added HR9495 to H.Res.1596 late last night and it is being brought to the House ‼️TODAY‼️
So call your GDMFAH House Rep RIGHT FUCKING NOW and tell them to vote NO on HR9495.
live.house.gov
NOV 19 at 2:26pm Eastern
The House added HR9495 to H.Res.1596 late last night and it is being brought to the House ‼️TODAY‼️
So call your GDMFAH House Rep RIGHT FUCKING NOW and tell them to vote NO on HR9495.
live.house.gov
November 20, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Looks like we avoided a vote on the nonprofit shutdown bill today but are likely to see one tomorrow.
Your rep's office in DC is gonna be closed for the night, great time to leave a voicemail, especially if they were one of the Democratic yes votes last week (listed upthread)
Your rep's office in DC is gonna be closed for the night, great time to leave a voicemail, especially if they were one of the Democratic yes votes last week (listed upthread)
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Once again begging people to stop playing into parents rights by saying parents have the right to decide what their children get to read. Children have rights, and "parents rights" is a backdoor to book banning.
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Once again begging people to stop playing into parents rights by saying parents have the right to decide what their children get to read. Children have rights, and "parents rights" is a backdoor to book banning.
there's an open seat on my library's board right now and I'm crossing my fingers we get someone who knows libraries and is ready to fight any nonsense. the person who is leaving was the one I trusted to do that the most so I am sad
November 15, 2024 at 2:49 AM
there's an open seat on my library's board right now and I'm crossing my fingers we get someone who knows libraries and is ready to fight any nonsense. the person who is leaving was the one I trusted to do that the most so I am sad
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I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
November 7, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
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In lieu of my usual must-read list, I compiled a mash-up of books, articles, and resources that may be helpful right now, including a link to a free Let This Radicalize You ebook.
Power Up: Resources for the Road Ahead
"Focusing on what I can do, and endeavoring to live my values is my greatest comfort right now."
organizingmythoughts.org
November 9, 2024 at 2:27 PM
In lieu of my usual must-read list, I compiled a mash-up of books, articles, and resources that may be helpful right now, including a link to a free Let This Radicalize You ebook.
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This is true and something bell hooks used to talk about as well.
"When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights."
- bell hooks, All About Love
"When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights."
- bell hooks, All About Love
I’m going to keep it real and hope I don’t get accused of overstating the issue; children’s liberation is the key to the future you want. The active, and often dismissed, oppression of children is near the root of what ails us as a nation.
November 14, 2024 at 3:58 AM
This is true and something bell hooks used to talk about as well.
"When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights."
- bell hooks, All About Love
"When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights."
- bell hooks, All About Love
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really important to know that Spotify is a loss for 90% of artists.
So when you use Spotify, you are harming... you know... most of the music industry...
Buy the music! From Bandcamp, from the band. Buy their merch. Go to their gigs.
So when you use Spotify, you are harming... you know... most of the music industry...
Buy the music! From Bandcamp, from the band. Buy their merch. Go to their gigs.
Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)
Spotify Hits 252M Premium Subscribers, On Track For First Full Year of Profitability
"We’re where we set out to be — if not a little further — and on a steady path toward achieving our long-term goals," said CEO Daniel Ek.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:46 PM
really important to know that Spotify is a loss for 90% of artists.
So when you use Spotify, you are harming... you know... most of the music industry...
Buy the music! From Bandcamp, from the band. Buy their merch. Go to their gigs.
So when you use Spotify, you are harming... you know... most of the music industry...
Buy the music! From Bandcamp, from the band. Buy their merch. Go to their gigs.
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for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
November 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌